Cheat's Chicken and Mushroom Pie
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
2-3
ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts (cut into inch-size pieces)
- 100 g lardons
- 100 g white mushrooms (quartered)
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons finely chopped dried wild mushrooms (rehydrated)
- 1 garlic clove (crushed)
- 1 shallot (finely chopped)
- 1 -2 sheet puff pastry, cut to 15cm squares (1 or 2 each)
- white sauce (see Recipe Description)
- 50 -150 ml chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon frozen peas
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- pepper
directions
- Pre-heat the oven to 220°C.
- Fry the lardons (without oil, the lardons provide the fat).
- Move the lardons to one side.
- Add the chopped shallot and crushed garlic, warm through until the shallot is soft.
- Put the puff pastry in the oven.
- Add the chicken, pepper and thyme to the frying pan, cook on medium heat for 2 minutes.
- Add the white mushrooms, cook on medium heat for 2 minutes.
- Add the wild mushrooms, cook on low heat for 8-10 minutes.
- While the chicken is cooking, make the white sauce with chicken stock added.
- Add the peas and white sauce to the chicken, heat gently for 2-4 minutes to mix thoroughly.
- Serve the chicken and shrooms with the puff pastry lid placed on top.
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I am English married to a Dutch bloke and we are both obsessed by food and travelling - hoorah! When I first joined Zaar my fave cookbooks were on the opposite ends of the spectrum: 'The Classic 1000 Quick and Easy Recipes' by Carloine Humphries and Gordon Ramsay's 'Just Deserts'. I hardly ever use the first book now because Zaar has replaced it. The second book can be extended to 'anything by Gordon Ramsay'. It is amazing that such a recognised chef can write recipes that always turn out well! What is particularly exciting about them is that when they aren't quite right I always know what I did wrong and can fix it the next time.
When all said and done though, I really am a pudding cook. Main meals are great and I love them but I get much more pleasure from outrageous deserts. They have to be really outrageous though, with 6 eggs, a pint of cream and giant bars of chocolate. None of this delicate mousse type thing. I made a bavorois the other day and when all said and done it was just a posh mousse.
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